When the
chants came on one of her favourites happened to be chosen among the rest--the old double
chant "Langdon"--but she did not know what it was called, though she would much have liked to know.
This
chant, which a few old men buried in the gloom sang from afar over that beautiful creature, full of youth and life, caressed by the warm air of spring, inundated with sunlight was the mass for the dead.
Her perfect arm pressed Tarzan closer to her--a smile parted her lips and then she awoke, and slowly the smile faded and her eyes went wide in horror as the significance of the death
chant impinged upon her understanding.
The women came and squatted about the rim of the circle, beating upon tom-toms, clapping their hands in time to the steps of the dancers, and joining in the
chant of the warriors.
He had set up a demoniacal
chant of joy and was keeping time to it with his teetering.
He was appalled by the vastness of the beauty that rightfully belonged in it, and again his mind flashed and dared, and he demanded of himself why he could not
chant that beauty in noble verse as the great poets did.
For a few days the Abbot read the services all alone, but at the end of a week he could no longer bear the lack of singing, so calling the little lad he bade him to help him and to
chant the responses.
And again, they
chant the race of men and strong giants, and gladden the heart of Zeus within Olympus, -- the Olympian Muses, daughters of Zeus the aegis-holder.
Here the party knelt, while Buckingham recited a weird, prayer-like
chant.
It was while bending over them, examining, that again he heard the eery
chant.
One
chant only he raised, though he remembered no more than the first stanza and but three lines of that.
Mr Quilp was certainly entertaining himself with vocal exercise, but it was rather a kind of
chant than a song; being a monotonous repetition of one sentence in a very rapid manner, with a long stress upon the last word, which he swelled into a dismal roar.
